[OpenAFS] afs as backend for webdrive-ish system?

[Craig Huckabee]

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At 09:48 AM 10/6/2003 +0200, Tino Schwarze wrote:
 >
 >On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:01:21PM -0400, Craig Huckabee wrote:
 >
 >>  >anyone using afs as a backend for a webdrive/idrive-type system? if 
you're
 >>  >using freely available software for the web part, what are you using, and
 >>  >do you like it?
 >>
 >> Sorry for the late reply to the list, but we have this on our local to-do
 >> list.  We're looking at doing WebDAV using Apache.  Right now we're just
 >> swamped in the transition of our user population over to AFS.  I could
 >> probably dig up some funding to toss at this if the results remained open
 >> source.
 >
 >What exactly is still missing? You can at least authenticate users
 >against AFS using mod_auth_pam. And they can even access their files
 >because there's an extended mod_auth_pam around which acquires a token
 >for the apache process handling the request.
 >
 >Bye, Tino.
 >

Last time we tried this, mod_dav choked because it read the Unix permission 
bits and knew nothing of the AFS permissions.  We want something that will 
understand the ACLs.

--Craig


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